The BBC was issued with a D-notice, a gagging order, last week to silence its reporting of the gilets jaunes protests in France. Or so you might believe if you followed reports on social media. This story was entirely false. But it’s a sign of how powerfully momentum gathers behind misinformation — or deliberate attempts to mislead — that we have received freedom of information requests demanding “the truth”.
英国广播公司(BBC)不久前收到了一份国防机密通知(D-notice)，也就是限言令，要求其不再报道法国的“黄背心”抗议活动——如果你是在社交媒体上看新闻，你可能会相信有这么回事。这条消息完全不实。但已有主张信息自由的人们要求我们公布“真相”，这表明以讹传讹的错误资讯或刻意捏造的虚假资讯已经形成了一股多么强大的力量。
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